From Nearly Paralyzed To Professional Golf
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- Category: Inside Golf
- Published: 2020-04-02
By ADAM STANLEY, PGATOUR.COM
As Trey Shirley lie in a hospital bed, he prayed and thought about giving up the fight.
How was this perfectly healthy 18-year-old, with the world at his fingertips, suddenly not able to feel them anymore? Shirley looked for answers. He figured he was going to be paralyzed for life. He couldn’t drive, shoot hoops, go to college or take the next step — literally and figuratively — in his life. He dreamt about what could have been.
And then the dream came true: the feeling returned, first in his fingers and then his toes and then eventually everything came back.
He uncontrollably cried. What more could he do?